[extropy-chat] Extropy, Political Viewpoint and the Futureof ExI'sList

[Dirk Bruere]

On 10/11/05, Max More <max at maxmore.com> wrote:
>
> At 09:37 AM 10/11/2005, you wrote:
>
>
> >I don't insist on *anything* being taught in public schools. In
> >*private* schools I would certain recommend most strongly against
> >teaching intelligent design, but I wouldn't *require* anything unless
> >I owned such a school. That's about as non-political as it's possible to
> get.
> >
> >
> >!!!!!!!?
> >You are surely joking! or have you been mixing too much in
> >Libertarian circles?
> >Just about every national government on the planet would disagree -
> >and many of them would put you in their local Gulag for saying so.
> >It is a *highly* political statement.
>
> Are you *deliberately* misinterpreting what I'm saying?
>
> The Principle of Rational Thinking says NOTHING about what public
> schools can or cannot do. As such, it is entirely non-political.
>
>
Tell me that the Enlightenment was not political.

Dirk
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